In the last episode (Aug 06), Pierre-Luc Soucy said:
> I was working on some merge tables this morning and it worked fine,
> but after a few unsuccessful table creation requests (I was making
> some tests), I could not alter or select from a table for the
> following reason:
>
> mysql> create table test_table (country CHAR(2) NOT NULL) TYPE=MERGE
> UNION=(countries);
> Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
>
> mysql> select * from test_table;
> ERROR 1016: Can't open file: 'test_table.MRG'. (errno: 143)
$ perror 143
Error code 143: Unknown error: 143
143 = Conflicting table definitions in sub-tables of MERGE table
Does your countries table layout match that of test_table?
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Dan Nelson
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